COS 70 - Ecosystem Function: Biodiversity I

Wednesday, August 6, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
202 E, Midwest Airlines Center
1:30 PM
 Scale dependent responses of stability to biodiversity
David R. Chalcraft, East Carolina University
1:50 PM
 A lichen species richness indicator from forested plots has potential for monitoring response to human impact and/or climate across the continental USA
Susan Will-Wolf, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Mark Ambrose, North Carolina State University; Randall S. Morin, USDA Forest Service
2:10 PM
 Grassland biodiversity experiment demonstrates richness- and compositional effects on productivity and transgressive overyielding between functional groups
Elisabeth Marquard, University of Zurich; Alexandra Weigelt, University of Leipzig; Bernhard Schmid, University of Zurich
2:30 PM
 Controls over fungal communities and consequences for nutrient cycling
Kathleen K. Treseder, University of California, Irvine; Arundhati Majumder, University of California Irvine; Elizabeth Bent, University of California Riverside; James Borneman, University of California Riverside; Steven Allison, University of California, Irvine; China A. Hanson, University of California, Irvine
2:50 PM
 Do plant community composition and diversity really matter in a non-experimental setting?
Rachel E. Schultz, Mississippi State University; Virginie Bouchard, Ohio State University; Serita Frey, University of New Hampshire
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 The structure and functioning of a manipulated stream ecosystem
Francois K. Edwards, Queen Mary University of London; Rasmus B. Lauridsen, Queen Mary University of London; Alan G Hildrew, Queen Mary University of London; Anton T. Ibbotson, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; William R C Beaumont, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; Cynthia E. Davies, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; John Iwan Jones, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
3:40 PM
 A broad-scale perspective on the contribution of protected areas to ecological functions performed by birds in South Africa
Graeme S. Cumming, University of Cape Town; Matthew Child, University of Cape Town
4:00 PM
 Divergent ecosystem effects of ecologically similar copepod species
B. Matthews, University of British Columbia; Stephen J. Hausch, University of Calgary; J.B. Shurin, University of British Columbia
4:20 PM
 Status of fish biodiversity in Burulia beel of Gaibandha, Bangladesh
Shambu R. Das, Laxmi Agro Fisheries Complex (Pvt.) Ltd.; Jayanta K. Saha, Laxmi Agro Fisheries Complex (Pvt.) Ltd.
4:40 PM
 Diversity-productivity relationships with various consumer-resource competition models
Christian H. Balzer, University of California Santa Barbara; John D. Schade, National Science Foundation; Urmila S. Malvadkar, St. Olaf College
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